Skripal poisoning and Syria bombing a "Big Anglo-Saxon provocation"

Summary of Disinformation

Skripal poisoning and Syria bombing a “Big Anglo-Saxon provocation” and part of the same construct. [—] Three Western nations took the decision to attack Syria on the basis of “YouTube clips. Douma incident was a fake, involved a Russophobe state: Great Britain, or “Little Britain”. [—] “These two British provocations” [the Skripal poisoning and the “fake” chemical attack in Douma] makes it clear that this is “one grand devious design”.

In September 2017, the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic summarized 33 separate incidents where it had found use of chemical weapons. Since then there have been several additional suspected chemical attacks. Between March 2013 and March 2017, the Commission documented 25 incidents of chemical weapons use in the Syrian Arab Republic, of which 20 were proven to have been perpetrated by government forces and used primarily against civilians.

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